By relying on existing cultural models, the Victorian spa promoted health
and wellness. Advertising, together with other forms of promotion, strengthened the
legitimacy of its claims to cure a variety of health problems. ...

In 2004, Lost debuted on ABC and quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Its
postmodem take on the classic Robinson Crusoe desert island scenario gestures to a
variety of different issues circulating within the post-9II1 ...

In this thesis, I use "Fabricating Authenticity," a model developed in the Production of Culture
Perspective, to explore the evolving criteria for judging what constitute "real" and authentic Niagara
wines, ...

The topic of this thesis is marginaVminority popular music and the question of
identity; the term "marginaVminority" specifically refers to members of racial and
cultural minorities who are socially and politically ...

This thesis investigates two cases of Christian churches, which as
a part of their mission seek to accommodate people who would
otherwise not be interested in church. One of these communities
consider themselves a part ...

Metal Music as Critical Dystopia: Humans, Technology and the Future in 1990s Science
Fiction Metal seeks to demonstrate that the dystopian elements in metal music are not
merely or necessarily a sonic celebration of ...

This thesis examines the Midnight Express phenomenon focusing on the film's
reception by audiences in Europe, North America, and Turkey between 1978-2003. Using
and enhancing the "historical materialist approach" to film ...

My approach to the vampire detective highlights its connections to the private detective's
story and reveals the monstrous investigators' debt to early feminist forms of detection -specifically
in their reformation of ...

Film sequels are a pervasive part of film consumption practices and have become an important
part of the decision making process for Hollywood studios and producers. This thesis indicates
that sequels are not homogenous ...

This thesis examines Death of a Ghost (1934), Flowers for the Judge (1935), Dancers in
Mourning (1937), and The Fashion in Shrouds (1938), a group of detective novels by Margery Allingham
that are differentiated from her ...

This thesis argues that the motivations underpinning the mainstream news
media have fundamentally changed in the 21 sl century. As such, the news is no
longer best understood as a tool for propaganda or agenda setting; ...

Blogging software has popularly been used as a mode of writing about everyday life to interact
with others. This thesis examines the political potentials that are opened up by self-reflective
blogging. The self-reflective ...

This thesis explores the representation of Swinging London in three examples of
1960s British cinema: Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966), Smashing Time
(Desmond Davis, 1967) and Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas ...

It has bee1l said that feminism is dead, but in fact feminism is alive in popular cultural
fonlls that offer pleasure, style, fUll and advice, as well as political messages that are
internalized alld continuously enacted ...

This thesis examines the processes through which identity is acquired and the
processes that Hollywood :films employ to facilitate audience identification in order to
determine the extent to which individuality is possible ...

This thesis examines the independent alternative music scene in
the city of Hamilton, Ontario, also known, with reference to its
industrial heritage, as "Steeltown." Drawing on the growing
literature on the relationship ...

This thesis deals with the everyday use of propaganda in Romania, between 1971 and 1989.
It explores the way in which the propaganda discourse of the Romanian Communist Party
was disseminated through popular culture ...